- Margherita of Durazzo
Margherita of Durazzo (
28 July ,1347 –6 August ,1412 ) was theQueen consort ofCharles III of Naples .Family
She was the fourth daughter of
Charles, Duke of Durazzo (1323 - 1348) andMaria of Calabria .Her paternal grandparents were
John, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord. Her maternal grandparents wereCharles, Duke of Calabria and Marie of Valois.Marie was the eldest daughter of
Charles of Valois and his third wifeMahaut of Chatillon .Mahaut was the eldest daughter of
Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol and Marie of Brittany.Marie was a daughter of
John II, Duke of Brittany andBeatrice of England .Marriage
In February, 1369, Margherita married her paternal first cousin Charles of Durazzo. He was a son of
Louis of Durazzo , another son ofJohn, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord. The bride was twenty-two year old and the groom twenty-four. They had three children:*Maria of Durazzo (1369 - 1371).
*Joan II of Naples (23 June ,1373 -2 February ,1435 ).
*Ladislas of Naples (11 February ,1377 -6 August ,1414 ).Charles managed to depose her maternal aunt
Joan I of Naples in 1382. He succeeded her and Margherita became his Queen consort. Charles succeededJames of Baux as Prince of Achaea in 1383 with Margherita still as his consort.By then becoming the senior
Angevin male, Charles successfully deposedMary of Hungary in December, 1385. She was daughter of his deceased cousinLouis I of Hungary andElisabeth of Bosnia . However Elisabeth arranged his assassination atVisegrád on24 February ,1386 .Margherita became a
Queen Dowager . She survived him by twenty-six years but never remarried. Their son Ladislas succeeded to the throne of theKingdom of Naples while Mary of Hungary was restored to her throne.External links
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/capet/capet19.html#MCD A listing of descendants of Charles I of Sicily]
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